Sneha Solanki works as an artist, in education and also as a producer, independently and in collaboration. Her practice and research aims to investigate and work in parallel to technological determinism from current and historical periods in time, extending to installation, sound, image,web and performance. Sneha has made work from the invisible signals from military bases, with plants, computer viruses and rercently she has worked in synthetic biology.

Sneha is an amateur cook with an interest in food and culture- she has cooked for the masses and for the few on the Ms Stubnitz, a former fishing trawler, alongside an army chef and for a 'thing dinner', Limehouse, London. Sneha was also the director of Polytechnic, an independent artist-led organisation which emphasised hands-on, open and distributed approaches to art & technology between 2002-2012.

Sneha has taught in Fine Art at Newcastle University and as a visiting lecturer at Sunderland University.

Selected exhibitions / events / activity includes:

Super-natural AV Festival: Exhibition and synthetic biology residency at the Center for Bacterial Cell Biology, Newcastle University, UK, 2011 - 2012.

Fresh-air shed & Eating Things Arthouses, Whitley bay, UK, 2011.

Synthesis Exchange Lab UCL, London, UK. 2011.

3 Degrees of Separation. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. 2011.

cultivation - plant tissue culturing lab. Our Land is Your Land, CCA, Glasgow, UK. 2010.

cultivation - bio art lab: software . hardware. wetware lab. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. 2010.

Ecologies. Produced and Polytechnics Ecologies programme. 2009 -2010.

M.O.D Jukebox & Blindspot. Spectropia, Riga, LV. 2008.

NS 246883: the other space. Williamson Tunnel, Liverpool, UK. 2008.

Reclaiming the Nostalgia of Kitechen Science, Open_Sauces, Brussels, 2008.

Craigowl Hill Tour. Something in the Air, Botanical Gardens, Dundee, UK. 2007.

The_Lovers. Museum of Modern Art, Belgrade and The Museum of Modern Art, Novi Sad, CS, 2006; Brown University Watson Institute, Boston, USA and Post & Tele Museum, Copenhagen DK. 2004.

timebomb. Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK. 2003.

Selected Bibliography:

Reclaiming the Nostalgia of kitchen science.
Open_Sauces, M. kuzmanovic, Foam. 2010.

Acoustic.space #7
RIXC & MPLab, Riga, LV. 2008.

Disembodied performance in New Media Art
B. Graham in ‘Dead History, Live Art?: Spectacle, Subjectivity and Subversion in Visual Culture Since the 1960s’. Jonathan Harris (ed.) Liverpool University Press. 2007.

The Virtual Artaud: Computer Virus As Performance Art
J. Farman in ‘Techknowledgies: New Imaginaries in the Humanities, Arts, and TechnoSciences’. M. Valentis (ed) Cambridge Scholars Press. 2007.

Infection as Communication
A. Ludovico. Neural, Issue 22 English edition. 2005.